Azerbaijan’s Aliyev calls snap election after Karabakh victory
Reuters Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, riding high on a wave of support for his recapture of the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Thursday called an early presidential election for 7th February. Aliyev, 61, was last re-elected in 2018 for a seven-year term, with a declared 86 per cent of the vote, in a poll boycotted […]
Karabakh refugees in Armenia face uncertainty and poverty in exile
Masis, Armenia Reuters For the third time in her life, Elada Sargsyan is a refugee. Born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Sargsyan fled her hometown in 1988, aged 19, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Elada Sargsyan, 54, a refugee from Nagorno-Karbakh region, poses for a picture in a disused kindergarten, where she […]
Iran to host Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process talks amid Middle East tensions
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Moscow, Russia Reuters Foreign ministers from Iran, Turkey and Russia will meet their counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia in Tehran on Monday and discuss progress towards a peace agreement between the two South Caucasus neighbours, Iranian and Russian state media said. The first meeting of foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan […]
Azerbaijan’s President says France will be to blame if new conflict starts with Armenia
Moscow, Russia Reuters Azerbaijan’s President scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a lightening Azerbaijani military operation last month. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev last week pulled out of an EU-brokered meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan […]
ICRC combs streets of “deserted” Karabakh capital for stranded residents
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Only a few hundred people remain behind in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the sick, disabled and elderly, an International Committee of the Red Cross official said on Tuesday, describing the empty streets as “surreal”. Azerbaijani forces took control of the enclave on its territory populated by ethnic Armenians, triggering an exodus […]
“The stars aligned”: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s President avenged his father
ANDREW OSBORN, of Reuters, reports on the recent background to events in Nagorno-Karabakh…
UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus nears end
Reuters A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani military offensive last month. The mission, led by a senior UN aid official, is the global body’s first access to the region in about […]
More than 100,000 refugees arrive in Armenia as exodus swells
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters More than 100,000 refugees have arrived in Armenia since Azerbaijan’s military operation to retake control of Nagorno-Karabakh, the United nations said, while thousands more endured long hours of delay in a huge traffic jam at the border. “Many are hungry, exhausted and need immediate assistance,” Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee […]
Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to Azerbaijan
Goris, Armenia Reuters Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week. In a statement, they said their self-declared Republic of Artsakh would “cease to exist” by 1st January, […]
Armenian priest fears for Karabakh’s Christian heritage amid mass exodus
Kornidzor, Armenia Reuters Father David fears for Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Christian heritage following the defeat of the region’s ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave by Azerbaijani forces. The 33-year-old Armenian priest has come to Kornidzor, a village on the border with mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, to provide spiritual support to tens of thousands of his compatriots now fleeing their […]